Takashi Mizuhashi - 1974 - Who Cares

Takashi Mizuhashi Quartet

1974

Who Cares

01. Who Cares 5:55
02. Sometime Ago 6:45
03. Deep In My Thought 6:09
04. In A Little Spring Waltz 5:20
05. Green Dolphin Street 2:56
06. Blues For Andrew 8:47

Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Yoshio Otomo
Bass – Takashi Mizuhashi
Drums – Hideo Sekine
Piano – Fumio Karashima

Recorded Aug. 28, 1974 at Aoi Studio, Tokyo.

Who cares? We care! And it's hard not to – given the strength of this sweet little set from Japanese bassist Takashi Mizuhashi – a hell of a player who really knows how to keep things exciting throughout! The group's got some tremendous talent in the front – both Fumio Karashima on piano and Yoshio Otomo on alto and soprano sax – each players who get plenty of time in the spotlight, driven onto heights by Mizuhashi's bass – but sometimes in a very subtle way, too. Karashima plays Fender Rhodes a bit – which we really love for his spacious handling of the keys – and Takashi sometimes bows the bass in a way that makes for these really magical sound next to the Rhodes. The set's definitely on the more soulful side of the Japanese jazz spectrum from the 70s